How do we know the MAC is a great conference?  'cause, despite MAC football's jr. high level internet/tv package, the really miscellaneous MAC promo they keep playing at halftime (no commerical sponsor sales??) tells us so.

No Worries

Wow.  That game was brutal.  Bad football.  Game stats on yahoo say the teams completed 42 of 58 passes.  Really?  It felt like they completed 22 of 58.  No O.  On the last play of regulation--a fumble scrum at the end of a qb sack--the officials invoked the mercy rule by letting the clock run several extra seconds after the play was pretty clearly over.

We gotta be better than these teams.

After 2 games- 30 carries for 132yrds, sounds like a Heisman winner to me.

B.Price was out for a good chunk of the game with a hand injury of some kind. He was disquietingly good when he was in, but at the rate he seems to pick up injuries he's looking likely to miss a MAC game or 2.

Have you seen their kicker?

15,000 my ass. From the EPSNU crowd shots I'd put the number south of 10k

No matter how big time they want to think they are, Temple seems to be a bit of a joke around here. My roommates were laughing at how empty The Linc was for the game. Even for the Mayor's Cup I think the attendance was only around 30,000. Hopefully in November we get a strong Bobcat following. I'd love to see that place filled with green and white!

Also, Delaware (FCS) brought in over 20,000 for West Chester University (Div. 2), and the atmosphere was great. The stadium only holds around 22,000 so it was pretty packed.

If we played in Paul Brown against another MAC school, do you think the shots on TV would look like a big crowd?

1. Unfortunately no, but we're not located in the heart of Cincinnati. As much as I would like to become OHIO's team, Cincinnati has their own university to root for.

2. We would draw more than 15,000. I'm sure of it.

3. I think back to the Temple fans who came on here last year ranting about how they are too big-time for the MAC. My point was not that we were more big-time than they were, my point is that they are not.

I was at the Link for the Ohio game in 2008 and the crowd was likely 50% smaller for that game than it was last night.  It's a great facility and they should really draw far more for a game just becasue of where they play ,considering that an entry level Eagles ticket will cost you 5x that of a Temple game tick.

That being said, I can't wait to fill one of those seats on 10/16.

I'm well aware of the lack of support for UC football prior to the last few years. I didn't mean that Cincinnati would sell out Paul Brown either. In my opinion though, they would pull in more than 15,000 against just about anybody. Temple was good last year, they're supposedly the best team in the MAC this year. Does that not get them more than 15,000 for a game that is nationally televised? 

Also, in 2008 (the first numbers I could find from a google search) Pitt averaged just over 49,000 per game. Miami just over 46,000. NC State, who plays in Raleigh and had a 5-7 record that year,  averaged just over 56,000. Kentucky, who went 2-6 in the SEC in 2008, averaged just over 69,000. Washington, who finished 0-12 (Miami Redhawk bad), averaged just over 63,000 per game to watch them get spanked week in and week out.

I know these teams play in BCS conferences, but in the last three cases they were still very bad! Also, I know there are a million variables that could be pointed out as to why these schools brought in fans and Temple doesn't. The bottom line is that if Temple is so big-time, and is ready to move on from the MAC, then where are the fans?